Amusement device



March l0, 1925. 1,529,421

l E. M. DowDELL AMUSEMENT DEVICE Filed June 19, 1923 Patented Mar. 10,1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

AM'USEMENT DEVICE.

Application filed June 19, 1923.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGNiE M. DowDELL, a citizen ot the United States,and resident of the city and county of San Francisco and State otCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAmusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to amusement devices, and has for itsprincipal object the provision of a means, adapted to be secured to thetoot, whereby the healthful and pleasurable activities of children maybe encouraged and promoted. The device comprises a foot-supportingelement fitted at its one extremity to receive the foot and bearingmeans for securing, or attaching, it thereto, and bearing at its otherextremity a tread element adapted to permit a bouncing action. Figure lis perspective view, showing the device in place.

Figure 2 is an elevation, partly in section, showing the foot-arch rest,the elastic-cush ion tread, and a means for retaining the device inplace.

Figure 3 is a plan view of Figure 2. Figure et is a modification,showing a spherical tread, together with a flexible buckle-bearingmember for securing it in place.

ln the preferred form of my invention, the spherical tread is comprisedof a hollow pneumatic element, but it is obvious that it might be asolid elastic element and still provide a useful device.

Serial No. 646,537.

Referring' more particularly to the drawings, l represents thefoot-supporting ele-- ment, 2 the foot-rest extremity, 3 the heelcheck,4 the vertically arranged cord chan- 4U nels, 4 the cords, 5 the rubber,or elastic, tread, 6 transverse aperture, 7 the flexible buckle-bearingmember carried by the aperture 6, S the ball-tread, 9 the concavity inwhich rests the ball-tread 8, l() the apertured plate tor retaining theball-tread 8 in place, and ll. the means for securing pla-te 10 to thebase-extremity of element l.

The preferred torni of my invention, as shown in Fig. 4, comprises anelastic or gas iilled cushion element 8.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters -Patent is:

l. A device of the class described, com 55 prisinga foot support havinga cut out portion at one extremity constituting a heel rest and a cutout portion at the opposite extremity, and a pneumatic tread in the lastnamed cut out portion.

2. A device of the class described, comprisingy a vertically elongatedfoot support, said support having means orn'iing a. rest for the sole ofthe shoe and a cut out poi tion forming a rest for the heel at oneextremitv thereof, said support having a rounded cavity at its oppositeextren'iity, and a gas filled ball member seated in said rounded cavity.

EUGENIE M. DOWDELL.

